…only if markets anticipated that QEII would be approximately half a trillion $ worth of purchases of long term treasuries. If the market had expected a trillion, and QE has…

…is always worth listening to with care, for Mr. Walker is a reliable and thorough enumerator of popular deficit-scare themes. Three of these in particular caught my attention on Wednesday….

…frightening. They say that of the over 800,000 mortgages http://www.cso.ie/statistics/sasunemprates.htm in the country, worth €120 billion, 40,000 are in arrears and that figure will rise to 70,000 in the coming…

…worth 250 would be “economically indistinguishable” from a purchased item originally worth 100 that has increased to 250 with services from the purchaser misses the point of attempting to account…

…payment, or—given Mr. Cashill’s figures—a loan of 9.30% for the entire amount.) Certainly, if the primary lender honestly believed the property was worth $470,000, they would have been willing to…

…is one of hirsuted males forging through the marketplace…oops, I meander) that may be worth a read. I’ll add it to my “progressive sites of interest” blogroll, which, as readers…

by cactus How much are all those folks at the various TARP corporate welfare recipients worth? We’re being deluged with stories about how many executives at such institutions are leaving…

…five last week. Three (in Elizabeth, Oregon, and Danville) are in the NW part of the state. The other three are located near Chicago (Worth, in Cook County), Urbana (Clinton),…

…would he take that? Is an extra three years of retirement worth $4.25 a week out of your current take home? (1.7%/2 = 0.85 x $26,000 = S221/52 = $4.25)….

…massive and dense enough so that *if* the theory is true they are black holes. My view is that theorizing is worth while once one has achieved something with atheoretic…